Judas Tavares, post: 173767723, member: 49384"]One thing to gear up for every year is the big debate on the board regarding who was picked vs. who we left on the board. Without looking things up, this is what I can remember:
2008: Most were happy we moved up for Schenn who was seen as a franchise piece, but there were some quite upset we didn't take Filatov for a much needed injection of young skill into the organization.
I don't remember the Schenn love because of the zero offense. Filatov and Hodgson were the two favorites IIRC. As it turned out Schenn was not the bust that pick might have been.
2009: I think most were happy with Kadri, but I do remember some wanting Cowan, which would have given us a young twin towers on the backend.
Again I don't recall the pick being popular. Too small and an older player.. MPS and even Kassian were talked about. Everyone was hoping for Brayden Schenn. "Unite the brothers" 
2010: Oh dear. I guess we were all unanimously mad at Burke.
2011: Having such late picks, it was kind of everywhere and I don't quite remember much. I think most thought Percy was a smart pick. I remember some sadness regarding not drafting Saad. I can only imagine how many people here are hoping for a (more successful) Biggs type pick this year....
I remember Puempel, Saad and Jenner were popular
2012: This one is also tough to remember, I think Rielly was a bit of a surprise but people were happy, though there were a lot of Grigorenko and Forsberg supporters, like me.
The blown knee pick disappointed a lot of us. Grigs was popular early and then his stock started to crash. I think Forsberg was the bigger hope as we had Grabo and Boz as our top 2 centers.
2013: This was also late and after losing out on Mantha, I think people were meh overall with whoever was left at that point, though I do remember some disappointed to see us not take the falling
Shinkaruk. He would have been the more popular pick by a mile but a worse mistake than Gauthier. It just wasn't a very good year.
2014: This was skill vs. will. Nylander vs. Ritchie. Fairly divided board, lots of arguing, and also with some saying that in going with skill, Ehlers should have been the pick.
Not an unpopular pick given the favorites kind of all went by #5
2015: A lot were happy with Marner, though the Marner vs. Hanifin debate was big, with a few Provorov, Werenski and Barzal supporters sprinkled in.
2016: I mean other than a few trolls saying it should have been Laine, pretty unanimous and happy board.
2017: This one was a big surprise for me. The board was pretty unanimously happy, and I guess because Liljegren was talked about as a top 2 pick for so long, even the detractors to his type of player agreed you can't go wrong having him slip that far. I was still surprised how civil this board was after that pick.
Not a crazy faller at the draft though, I think he was expected to go around 14.
2018: This is where the Dubas debating really came in. I remember lots of people upset about the trade down and the Soo familiarity, with plenty loving Bokk. Also, I was one of those who wanted Veleno who was still on the board. But there were a lot of candidates for this draft so the board was all over the place.
I think I wanted Veleno but unlike other years there wasn't several popular players they overlooked. You can only be so upset over an overlooked forward when you have a group like the Leafs have.
2019: Bonus, we will do the second round here! A lot of Robertson vs. Leason fighting. Leason looked to have a very rough year statistically this year....
D +1 players are a huge gamble and Leason reinforces that. I think if you look at 90% of the published lists you take Robertson there. Easy choice.
I feel like our board has never been so divided (we are kind of like the US). That combined with a pick right in the middle of the first round, oh I think there is gonna be some fighting this year. Good luck mods! The only way I see it not happening is if someone really drops and we nab him (ala Liljegren in 2017). Otherwise oh boy....I
think a couple of players not necessarily expected to be around at 15 may be there. What makes this more interesting is that if some other club has that player even higher, they could still trade down for the right return.
This board will always bias towards scorers because that is how most people interpret "BPA".
